If I never made it past the first room does it still count?
Every time I tried 2 my experience was 10 mins of: Imma go fight these ants. damn these ants got hands
2 has a fucking awful awful intro
I built a small guns and speech character just like the one I used to beat fallout 1. Little did I know my character lives in a primitive tribe and won't have access to any guns or friends for a long while.
I honestly gave up after getting slaughtered two dozen times because my fragile guns character lives in a society where she has to fight with a spear all the time. How did she survive long enough to reach the start of the game?
Yeah I needed a walkthrough to get past the second town and the rest of the game in 2
First playthrough: go to the town nearby. Random encounter with some crazed robot that kills me, so I have to do the tutorial all over again. Put it down for years after that.
The trick is to gtfo of town after completing the awful tutorial, beeline to the bottom of the world map until you start encountering people in purple robes fighting against people without purple robes, scavenge the loot from the dead, and sell everything to the vendor at the nearest town. I think one of the vendors sells power armor lol. Do this until you have enough equipment then you can begin last-hitting the survivors for xp. Farm off the survivors until you feel you are strong enough. With this cheese, you basically walk out of it with power armor and various late-game weapons on top of being overleveled.
Fucking same. I got my copy for free when I bought Baldur's gate, I got shredded by the little rats just outside the vault and never touched that game again.
Fallout 2 is fulla proto-reddit humour imho. And the reason most people who've played glom onto Frank Horrigan, or Vault City, or infiltrating Navarro Oil Rig is if they tried to think too hard about some of the other bits, their overburdened cringe receptors would explode.
Go on, make me re-enact a scene from Monty Python again, see what happens fucker.
I'm afraid we're fresh out of Monty Python scenes.
Umm actually it's one of the earliest games where you can get gay married, bet you feel dumb for calling it reddit and cringe now 
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Please don't look up the particulars as to how that happens
I learned what a fluffer was by poisoning myself for a handful of caps in 2.
Im anti Fallout 2 gang as well. The Golden Path is knowing only Fallout 1 and New Vegas are good
Tactics has its moments, but can hardly be called good
I am a poser and havent played it
that was my introduction to the franchise and let me say how dare you
Tactics is a decent Jagged Alliance knock off. At least the first half.
The last half game is basically a logistics simulator for how much 50 cal ammo you can buy/loot/hoard versus how much you need to use to pass a level and/or kill enemies that if you drop them you'll get etc a bunch of 50 cal.
You have 2characters in the party that can use a browning 50 cal, the rest are support for them.
Pretty fun though.
Having played them recently I think Fallout 1 is better than 2. It's the right balance of cringe and much tighter story wise.
yep fallout two is filled with nonsense meta jokes and unnecessary gory and sexual humor and scenarios.
There were three Fallout games, right? There was also some weird alpha version of New Vegas set in Washington DC for some reason, but it was kinda boring. Then some silly spinoff games with like multiplayer and base building or something. Who ever played those?
some weird alpha version of New Vegas set in Washington DC for some reason, but it was kinda boring
you take that back right this instant
Absolutely brutal. I’ve watched better gamers do walkthroughs.
Yes I played them, yes I used a trainer to be level 8000 with four trillion HP, yes I beat every enemy to death with my bare fists, this is peak fallout gaming.
Kicking a guy and he slides off the map. Punching another guy and his body explodes. I did this as a kid.
Also finished Arcanum this way. Still a lot of fun being basically a divine being effortlessly solving every problem.
The best thing in Arcanum was finishing certain plot quests that gave you a "fate point" or whatever. This fate point could then be used to get a critical success on one attempt at something. So then you'd go up to the Bad Boss Guy, use the point for a crit to pickpocket his armour off of him, put it on yourself, then fight him as he's standing in his underwear
Fallout of the North Star
thread full of people saying Fallout 1 is better than Fallout 2
@ashinadash@hexbear.net cracks a smile
Good post.
Explain this to me right fucking now
this is the original picture 
Trish, Alexis de Tocqueville called America "The Great Experiment". What can we do, as citizens, to improve on that experiment?
Uh, well, uh, I think America is the land of the free, which is a wonderful thing, and also the brave, where people can live. And nobody can ever take that away from you, and it never gives up. But the high birthing rate of immigrants frightens me! No offense to anyone out there, but if it were up to me and my family, I would actually call it our-merica, and not their-merica! Thank you.
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Lot of Fallout "fans" never played the classics
Myself, I've played every single Fallout games
Even the ones that aren't good
Especially the ones that aren't good
Especially the ones that aren't good
between Brotherhood of Steel and Tactics, which are you throwing in the heap of despair and which are you preserving?
Is it worth learning the retro style of the earlier games?
I'd say so
It's a little clunky and being directly inspired by Wasteland means it's deliberately antagonistic towards the player sometimes (don't pick Big Guns or Energy Weapons as a tag skill, put some points into them later)
But they're fondly remembered for a reason
They're good
First time I played 2 my tag skills were Energy Weapons, Science, and Repair
The Temple of Trials was not a good time
idk shit about fallout but that is almost exactly the list of weak skills in system shock 2 as well, what a weird coincidence
I played it recently using the mod Fallout Et Tu which is a nifty QOL mod which I can recommend even new players try, that virtually recreates the first game in the second games engine, which fixes a lot of the problems one might have with Fallout 1, like for instance without the mod if a companion or NPC box you into a corner you might just have to load a save if they don't move.
yes, but i'd recommend following a walkthrough if you stop having fun
I bought 1 and 2 when they were on sale. I tried 1 a couple of times. Never even bothered trying 2 after that.
they are older games that came out exclusively on PC in the 90s, so most fans of the series haven't played them, even though they're arguably better than the more popular sequels, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, which released on home consoles.
The only fallout game that I could bear playing was fallout 1.
i got Fallout 1 from my uncle as a christmas gift when i was like 7, i finished it 15 years later.
New Vegas is also good.
never finished Fallout 2
I was jonesing after finishing fallout 1 and 2, it led me to playing slavjank crpg's like atom rpg
Jokes on you I only played them!
I've avoided FNV because of Badhesda.
Fallout is good.
I did not care for Fallout 2.
Was just admiring my original copy of it earlier. I bought another copy off of GOG since it was about a pound on sale, which is a bargain compared to (a) connecting a working cd-rom drive to any of my computers (b) running the damned installer on Linux (c) fully patching it up to work.
Fallout 1 is much more consistent with better lore, but 2 has a lot more 'game' and is more fun to play. Fight me.
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